[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 6056]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE RYAN BUDGET

  (Mr. RUIZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RUIZ. Once again, through the Ryan budget, House leadership is 
seeking to balance the budget on the backs of hard-working American 
families and seniors, undermining the economic recovery, and ending the 
Medicare guarantee.
  As an emergency medicine physician, I know firsthand that many of the 
seniors I care for rely on the Medicare they have earned. In fact, in 
Riverside County, California, alone over 250,000 seniors rely on 
Medicare.
  Our priority should be reducing health care costs in order to make 
Medicare stronger and more sustainable, but this budget transforms 
Medicare into a voucher program, shifting the costs of health care to 
our seniors and ending Medicare as we know it.
  We must work together to protect and preserve Medicare, reduce our 
deficit, and decrease health care costs. The Ryan budget is not the way 
to do that. This proposal has the wrong priorities for Riverside 
County, California, and our Nation.
  I urge my colleagues to end the partisan political gamesmanship and 
put American families and our seniors first.

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